TYPICAL COGNITIVE ERRORS IN INFORMATION PROCESSING: A THEORETHICAL APPROACH
TYPICAL COGNITIVE ERRORS IN INFORMATION PROCESSING: A THEORETHICAL APPROACH
Author(s): Ştefan Horia ChişSubject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Individual Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Published by: Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies
Keywords: human cognitive system; information processing; cognitive schemes; cognitive errors; heuristic;
Summary/Abstract: The cognitive error represents the human tendency of drawing incorrect conclusions in certain circumstances, based on cognitive factors rather than on what is clear and rational. This is a form of a “cognitive shortcut”, often based on the “finger rule” and it includes errors in the statistic judgment, social attribution and memory. The cognitive errors are often present in the human thinking and they are studied by the cognitive science, social psychology, economic psychology etc. These errors are frequently caused by heuristic approaches, logical simplifications and decision rules, used in solving complex problems. When these simple decision approaches are employed in inappropriate situations, they lead to systematic and foreseeable mental errors, incorrect estimates and failed evaluations. Cognitive errors do not appear due to a pathological aspect but they are systematic errors of logic.
Journal: Defense Resources Management in the 21st Century
- Issue Year: 7/2012
- Issue No: 7
- Page Range: 278-284
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English